Source: Individual companies./Compiled by Roger Magnus.(1) URS and AECOM have joined together as one company as of Oct. 2014.

Largest bioscience/biotechnology companies in Connecticut

(Ranked by number of employees)

Rank

Company

No. of employees in CT/Year founded

1

Pfizer Inc., Groton

3,000/1849

2

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield

2,800/1885

3

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Wallingford

925/1858 (1)

4

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cheshire

750 (2)/1992

5

PerkinElmer Inc., Shelton

500 (3)/1937

Source: CURE, each company via survey. Notes: R&D = research and development. While Becton Dickinson and Idexx Laboratories Inc. have R&D operations outside of CT, local facilities are dedicated to manufacturing and thus omitted from this.list. Charles River Laboratories International Inc., CooperSurgical Inc., Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai Genomics Research Center and Medtronic Inc. (which acquired Covidien PLC) were contacted but did not complete survey. Hologic Inc. has both manufacturing and R&D operations in Danbury, however the company does not disclose employee data by geographic location. /Compiled by Heide Martin. (1) Year company was founded. (2) Approximate figure. (3) Estimated figure is over 500.

Top residential mortgage lenders for Connecticut

(Ranked by 2013 Connecticut dollars originated)

Rank

Company

Total $ loaned(000)/Number of CT loans

1

Wells Fargo Bank NA, San Francisco, CA

$2,137,754/7,512

2

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, New York, NY

$1,818,627/4,777

3

Bank of America NA, Hartford

$1,577,272/5,282

4

People's United Bank, Bridgeport

$1,188,250/3,413

5

Citibank NA, New York, NY

$1,134,573/3,631

Source: GeoDataVision, 203-530-1544, www.geodatavision.com. Information is based on 2013 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data released by the Federal Reserve in Sept. 2014, the latest available as of press time. Special thanks to Len Suzio./Compiled by Heide Martin.